Chapter 72: 72. Space Pearl Evolution (Seek Follow-up)
Early morning.
Yang Fan opened his eyes and realized that the aftereffects of throwing a punch beyond his limits had already vanished.
His muscles were no longer sore.
His mind was no longer weary.
He did a few stretches, nodding in satisfaction: "The Tracing Technique is indeed effective!"
Last night, he traced the Primordial Star Formation for quite a while, so his recovery speed was this fast.
Yang Fan quickly freshened up and headed to the kitchen to fry some eggs.
His cooking method was quite interesting.
He placed a flat pan, poured in a little vegetable oil.
Holding two eggs in each hand, he lightly squeezed, and the eggshells instantly shattered.
Four blobs of egg liquid fell into the frying pan, all neatly arranged.
Each blob of egg liquid was circular, with perfectly even spacing between them.
Yang Fan admired it for a moment, smiling with satisfaction: "Not bad!"
This was a symmetry so satisfying it could bring joy to someone with OCD.
Behind this aesthetic was his powerful control over his limbs.
He subtly activated the electric glow from the Thunder Branch, directing his right hand towards the egg liquid.
The electric glow transformed into heat, and a "sizzling" sound immediately arose.
Frying eggs barehanded, began.
Very soon.
The eggs were fried to a golden brown on the surface, the aroma wafting through the air.
Even without turning on the range hood, the enticing aroma still drifted out.
Ninth floor.
Right above Long-legged Sister's house.
A little boy sniffed the air, suddenly shouting: "Mom, I want eggs!"
His mother directly refused: "There's none!"
The little boy started fussing: "I want eggs!"
The mother was helpless.
Great Xia Business Communication's eggs were supplied in limited quantities, and it was usually impossible to get them.
No eggs at home, what to give to the child?
The little boy sat on the floor, continuing to fuss: "I want it!"
The mother got a bit annoyed, pulled her son up, and swung her right hand towards him.
"Smack! Smack!"
The little boy cried out, "Waaah!"
The mother glanced at her pitifully crying child, cursing under her breath: "Who the hell is frying eggs so early in the morning to show off?"
Downstairs.
Yang Fan heard the little boy crying and mumbled: "Having such sharp hearing isn't always a good thing."
After he finished frying the eggs, he gently touched the mark at his wrist, the Space Pearl imprint.
The next moment.
The fried eggs disappeared without a trace.
In the living room.
Cat Buddy #1, a tabby cat companion, was lazily lying on a coffee table.
This was also its designated territory.
Just then.
A stack of fried eggs appeared out of thin air above the dining table, landing with a "thump" in a white porcelain dish.
Cat Buddy #1's eyes widened in an instant.
Where did the eggs come from?
Did I, the cat, just see a ghost?!
After another moment.
"Thump!"
A second stack of fried eggs fell down.
Cat Buddy #1 yowled and jumped more than two meters high, hitting the ceiling.
It agilely performed a mid-air flip, landing all four feet on the ceiling.
It scampered along the walls, flew a few meters, and then landed back on the floor, fleeing the living room in a panic.
I really did see a ghost!
Cat Buddy #1 did not forget to send a warning to its owner through a Mind Link: "There's danger in the living room!"
It loyally added: "Master, hurry and escape with me!"
In the kitchen.
Yang Fan couldn't help but laugh.
He quickly reassured: "There's no danger in the living room, I was just running an experiment."
Cat Buddy #1 meowed and finally stopped in its tracks.
But it didn't return to the living room and instead slipped into a bedroom.
It felt its little heart couldn't handle such scares, better to stay away.
In fact.
Yesterday, the Space Pearl had unexpectedly upgraded, adding a new function—in space transfer.
In short, this curiosity could generate a space imprint.
By placing the imprint at a location, one could control the Space Pearl to transfer items to the position of the imprint.
Just now, he conducted a small experiment, setting an imprint above the dining table and successfully transferring the fried eggs there.
As for accidentally scaring Cat Buddy #1, that was completely unexpected.
After a simple breakfast.
Yang Fan muttered "work hard life," quietly activated the Shuttle Boat, and instantly teleported to a forest near his community.
Last night, he had another dream.
He dreamt that in another city, Honghe City, a hundred kilometers from Linjiang City, there was an unusual event.
A very peculiar life form appeared in the dream, and of course, he was going to check it out.
"Glug glug!"
Accompanied by a cry.
The Peregrine Falcon Needle Eye soared into the sky, carrying its master toward Honghe City.
Due to it being daytime, both person and bird were in a state of invisibility.
Yang Fan gazed at the vast city of Linjiang, frowning: "The temperature has risen to over twenty degrees, and there seem to be more poisonous mosquitoes."
With the Spirit Concealment Superpower at 5% Evolution Level, he could sense the increasingly strong presence of poisonous mosquitoes in the city.
It's imaginable that most other cities in the Great Xia Kingdom are facing the same situation.
Yang Fan watched as the city grew smaller, sighing lightly: "I hope there are fewer mutant poisonous mosquitoes appearing in Great Xia."
*
Half an hour later.
Yang Fan appeared by a small river on the outskirts of Honghe City.
Due to the ravaging mosquitoes, the area was deserted.
He glanced at the tall chimney in the distance, then looked at the time on his phone, softly saying: "Still need to wait a while."
The chimney belonged to the power plant.
Traces of white smoke were emerging from the chimney.
Yang Fan's gaze turned to the small river beside him.
A massive range of rain had recently swept the nation, and Honghe City was no exception, having continuous heavy rain for several days.
The river's water level had risen close to the banks,
Yang Fan exclaimed: "Why are there small lobsters in the river?"
He looked carefully, slightly surprised: "Why do I feel that these small lobsters seem to have undergone a very slight mutation?"
Not long ago, the temperature plummeted, and the central region of the Great Xia Kingdom was covered in thick ice and snow, causing ordinary small lobsters to freeze to death.
These small lobsters showed signs of slight mutation, with greatly enhanced life force, managing to survive the extreme cold.
Yang Fan thought about it and decided to fish for lobsters to pass the time.
He took out a fishing rod, prepared some chicken breast, and happily started fishing for lobsters.
As a fishing enthusiast, he wouldn't miss the chance to catch something.
With his extraordinary fishing skills, the first small lobster was hooked in just ten seconds.
"Snap!"
A light sound was heard.
A streak of crimson flashed past his fingertip.
The small lobster surfaced, stiffly floating out of the water.
Compared to ordinary small lobsters, this one had tiny light blue patterns on its shell.
Yang Fan snorted lightly: "Playing hard to get, forcing me to use electric spark?"
The patterned small lobster was quite clever, circling the chicken breast but not biting, as if sensing danger.
He lost patience waiting, simply casting out an electric spark.
After a while.
The plastic bucket beside him was filled with a small half-bucket of patterned small lobsters.
Besides that.
There was a small surprise.
0.1 Spirit Source Value!
This was the energy absorbed by the Soul Stealing Wisp from the small half-bucket of patterned small lobsters.
*
Three kilometers away.
Inside the Honghe Power Plant.
A sudden upheaval occurred.
Inside the tens of meters high boiler furnace, the flames suddenly went haywire.
"Beep! Beep!"
The temperature monitoring instruments immediately sounded a loud alarm.
The flame temperature, initially around a thousand degrees, suddenly dropped sharply to less than five hundred degrees.
Plummeting by half!
And a problem with the boiler could cause the turbine generators to stop, leading to a power outage incident.
Thus, the employees of the power plant quickly gathered.
Just as the engineers were urgently discussing, a horrifying scene appeared.
A section of the furnace's surface suddenly turned bright red, with signs of melting appearing on its surface.
An old engineer froze for a moment, shouting hoarsely: "Quick, shut down! Shut down immediately!"
He also yelled: "Everyone evacuate!"
The old engineer witnessed the scene, thinking the burner was about to explode.
At that moment.
The furnace temperature plummeted again to two hundred degrees.
The area about to melt finally bore a small hole through.
A blinding red light slipped out of the furnace.
Everyone was stunned.
The red light hovered in the air for a moment, swiftly darting outside the plant.
Then.
An even more shocking message spread throughout the plant.
The raw coal warehouse caught fire!
Under normal circumstances, the raw coal warehouse is designed with a complete fire prevention system, making fire almost impossible.
*
By the river.
Through the Falcon's eyes, Yang Fan clearly saw the power plant's upheaval.
He leisurely packed up the fishing rod, smiling, and said: "Time for me to step in!"
With a thought.
The Space Pearl materialized.
Yang Fan grabbed the curiosity and tossed it into the river.
In the next moment.
A twenty-meter wide area of the river's surface began rapidly descending.